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Amiable weakness.
Topic: Weakness
Author: Henry Fielding
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Topic: Friendship
Author: Mencius
It's guid to be merry and wise, It's guid to be honest and true, It's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue!
Topic: Scotland
Author: Robert Burns
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
Topic: Travel
Author: Gilbert K Chesterton
Wee commonly say of a prodigall man that hee is no man's foe but his owne.
Topic: Enemies
Author: Bishop John King
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Walter Bagehut
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the "ready-aim-aim-aim syndrome." You must be willing to fire.
Topic: Victims
Author: T Boone Pickens
This is the real Church of the Lord Jesus Christ -- not merely organisation, but a group of people, individually the children of God, drawn together by the Holy Spirit for a particular task, either in a local situation or over a wider area. The Church of the Lord Jesus should be a group of those who are redeemed and bound together on the basis of true doctrine. But subsequently they should show together a substantial "sociological healing" of the breaches between men, which have come about because of... man's sin. The Christian sociological position is that the sociological problems which we find... are a result of the separation that has come between men because of sin. (Continued tomorrow).
Topic: Christianity
Author: Francis A Schaeffer
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
Topic: Opportunity
Author: Thomas A Edison
Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
Topic: Computer Science
Author: Morris L Ernst
People differ not only in their ability to do but also in their 'will to do'.
Topic: Competency
Author: Paul Hersey
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
Topic: Country
Author: Lord Acton
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
Topic: Age
Author: George Meredith
Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday?
Topic: Rest
Author: Kin Hubbard
Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob.
Topic: Mob
Author: Samuel Johnson
Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if theyre right until the very end, so do the best you can and hope its right.
Topic: Decision
Author: Lily Collins
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
Topic: Science and Technology
Author: Evan Esar
All television is children's television.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Fred Allen
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Topic: Possessions
Author: Orson Scott Card